Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angry Feud. Holt's biggest single achievement, however, was holding together the tenuous government coalition organized 23 years ago between his own Liberal Party, which controls 81 of Parliament's 184 seats, and the Country Party, which holds 28 seats. Lacking Menzies' charisma, Holt often had to resort to face-losing compromises that made him look weak. Still, that was better, he felt, than the Menzies-style one-man rule. Holt believed in a "leadership that can lead but at the same time be close enough to the team to be part...
...contemptible about the antiquarian passion that swept a good part of the British upper classes at the time, when architects like Sir George Gilbert Scott and A.W.N. Pugin were creating hundreds of Neo-Gothic churches and restorations throughout England, and Sir Charles Barry was faking the medieval Houses of Parliament. For a generous spirit like Morris, it was an easy step from saying that life once was beautiful to believing that it could and should be beautiful again...
Thus emboldened, Premier Süleyman Demirel played along with the rising Turkish indignation over Cyprus. In an all-night session of Parliament, he demanded-and got-permission to send troops abroad, which was the next thing to an outright declaration of war. He ordered a full-scale alert and fired off a sharp note to Athens that demanded, among other things, the immediate recall of General Grivas to the mainland and the withdrawal of the illegally infiltrated Greek regulars from the island. He also insisted on guarantees for the free movement of Turkish Cypriots so that they could concentrate...
...cabarets and dance halls will undoubtedly be permitted to keep their doors open. Some of the more than 100 houses of prostitution, now illegal, may even become legitimatized. If a bill proposed last week by Minister of Social Welfare Nguyen Phuc Que is passed by the Vietnamese Parliament, the government will open a special area for fun making on the outskirts of Saigon. All patrons, G.I. and Vietnamese alike, would pay an admission charge directly to the government, which would license all cabarets and girls. As Que conceives it, the proceeds could be used for another kind of social project...
...Students have a right to know if their lecturers are under the employment of the State Department. You could force the Faculty to declare their interests as members of Parliament do. Professors who work for radical political organizations should also declare their commitments. Anything a professor may do to compromise his integrity--shouldn't that be made public...